Health and Fitness

Simulations Describe HIV’s ‘Diabolical Delivery Device’

Virus study extends reach of biological computations

HIV capsule forming

UChicago scientists have developed a simulation to show steps of the HIV-1 capsid assembly, which the virus needs to mature and become infective. The scale bar represents 20 nanometers. John Grime et al.
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 14, 2016.
From a virus’s point of view, invading our cells is a matter of survival. The virus makes a living by hijacking cellular processes to produce more of the proteins…

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